Does it really make sense to get a mopol guy to escort a toks car from Lagos to PHC?

Does anyone know their charges or any mopol who is willing to do the trip?

for me am budgeting 5k exclusive feeding and return TP
Pls contact me 08063448853. trip date is sunday-monday 6th-7th June 2010

Thanks

I'm not sure i understand you. Do you mean 5k to cover feeding and transport? Then you must be joking. If you must get an escort be ready to fork out no less than 10k. Or you just drive it yourself & trust in God.

a friend of mine did something similar, i think he paid somewhere around 25k inc feeding ant tp back.

but i hear it is pointless, since customs will still bug you if they want to. mopol or no.

i tried it several times and i paid the army man withing the range of 25k to 30k excluding feeding and fueling the car. he wore the uniform and had a written note from his oga(colonel) being my friend to deliver the car to port harcourt that he was on strict order. thats how i normally deliver my cars to PH.

N190k and N230k respectively.the pricing would deliver it to any Lagos abode.

Mehnn! am so confused!

I dont want to have issues with these custom guys that's why am considering using a armed man.

What year is the car to be transisted?

I have driven a cotonou toks car twice from lagos to enugu and the experience is nothing to write home about. There is more than 200 police check points and each wants to collect 200 Naira. Plus 5 customs checking points trying to collect 5k each. Your best bet is to look for a military man to do the driving and like Emperoh said "soak your chaplet fo water"

If I buy another car from cotonou I will drive it again myself. Nothing compares to the ADRENALINE RUSH. Trying to beat as many police check points and customs. W O A H !

@Emperoh I bet you will still do it again

I am not a police officer neither do I have money to replace an impounded car. But the truth is that you cant pay them all. you try to beat as many as possible and then pay the rest. Just ask anyone that crosses car for you.

@Emperoh
You surely have spoken as a veteran.

From my little experience this January, surely its not a job for the faint hearted.

I drove a Tincan cleared, registered (dec' 2009) car to the east and it was really an experience for me

By the time we got stopped by the first MOPOL check point in Sagamu, my fearful elder brother suggeseted that we should better go back to Lagos, pack the ride and take public transport, considering the number of check points still ahead. can you imagine how fearful folks can be?

But for me Combine my heart of steel with the adrenaline rush of cabling a new car that long distance, i was ready for whatever. I set my foot on gas after settling with #200. From there, it was from one check point to another, some #100, others #200 according to how the Mopols were feeling, spending average of 5mins at each point

But that first stopping also did something good for me, it proved to me that my papers are all genuine and correct (because you can never tell what these licencing agents do when you give them money to do the right thing)

Another trick i used is that because my company is a well respected one, i just wore my Id card on the neck and once they stop me, they first of all exchange banters before asking for something for 'd boyz'

It was only a bunch of criminals in Edo state(local police for that matter, they ordinarily have no business on the high way) that insisted that the customs certificate number was not written on my papers ( i wasn't travelling with the customs papers).
For real that guy nearly took 1hr from us because he was demanding #10,000. can you imagine
After much negotiation, i had to grudginly part with #2,000 as time was running out.

It was really a nice experience for me.

^^^^^ i hate does punk -backside local olopa on the High-way,  they are the once that would tell you to follow them to their yeye police station inside one God-knows here village  that's is totally off your route!  They know you are in a hurry and they have all the time in the world!!!,

for the few time i had to move a ride from tin can to PHC, i just paid 25k and i don’t stress my self to follow the ride. I fly and await delivery of the car to me and leave the boys to sort them self. The head ache most times is not worth it!!!

Quite an interesting and engaging conversation---reflecting the Nigerian realism. Hey, what's this customs certificate number that must appear on the registration papers? Which of the papers precisely?

I NEED AN ARMY MAN TO ESCORT MY CAR TO OWERRI, ANY INFORMATION ON HOW TO GET ONE PLEASE CONTACT ME ON: ebby22ng@yahoo.com

just a word of advice/caution, early this yr, some1 was killed and his body dumped in the bush by his friend [ a customs man] who he asked to help drive his car back from cotonu, the so called friend took possesion of the car after killing his friend n was enjoying the car for about 3 months b4 he was finally caught, and interrogated , that was how the truth came out.
so all u peeps soliciting 4 strangers c.um army men to help drive ur cars, be very careful,
my best advice is, let the army man drive the car alone. the boys at the road block always delay u more if the sense that the owner of the car is in the car